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Earlier this year, the Trump administration paid Bukele’s government $6 million to detain hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in the country’s megaprison known as CECOT, where extreme overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, and violence have been documented.
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Elizabeth Bratton, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
On May 9, she was flown to Texas through the Alexandria airport; the next day, she was driven to Mexico in a caravan of buses with other deportees.
—Brent McDonald, New York Times, 31 July 2025
The Trump administration pledged millions of dollars to El Salvador to hold the deportees in CECOT.
—Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 30 July 2025
Some of those approached by the US, such as Nigeria, have decried being pressured to take in foreign deportees.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
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Elizabeth Bratton, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
On May 9, she was flown to Texas through the Alexandria airport; the next day, she was driven to Mexico in a caravan of buses with other deportees.
—Brent McDonald, New York Times, 31 July 2025
The Trump administration pledged millions of dollars to El Salvador to hold the deportees in CECOT.
—Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 30 July 2025
Some of those approached by the US, such as Nigeria, have decried being pressured to take in foreign deportees.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deportee
refugee
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Afghan refugees like him await their asylum decisions in an increasingly hostile climate marked by ICE raids and deportations.—
Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Deportee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deportee. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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